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When hospitals determine after discharge that a patient did not meet inpatient criteria, they can file a provider liable claim using Condition Code W2 and be reimbursed for all services as if the patient were an outpatient, according to Deborah Hale, CCS, CCDS.
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At The Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha, pharmacists are part of a multidisciplinary team and see many patients in person starting on Day 1.
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Having pharmacists on the multidisciplinary team can help ensure that patients progress well in the hospital and that they follow their medication plan at home and avoid emergency department visits or readmissions.
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The pharmacy at Strong Memorial Hospital in Rochester, NY, fills about 75% of the prescriptions that patients are given at discharge.
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Of all the motivations to become an infectious disease doctor, this is one of the more unusual paths taken: lose most of one leg and nearly all of your life to a series of recurrent near pan-resistant bacterial infections that you've finally fought into remission but still have a 30% chance of coming back and trying to kill you.
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For years scarce data on health care associated infections in long term care has been extrapolated from small studies and published reports, but a new era of infection prevention is opening that may eventually produce the kind of benchmarking and national comparative HAI rates used in hospitals.
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Pick your poison: Hypervirulent KPC, untreatable E. coli in the community